Explore Quotes by Daryl Hall

Americans think that if you're popular, there must be something wrong with you.

If you work hard and you're good, you can build something for yourself.

Smokey Robinson is one of my heroes as a singer and songwriter; a major influence on my own music from the very start.

I was very inspired by my mother. She was a vocal teacher and sang in a band, and my first memories of her were going out with her on the local circuit.

Being at college, I think that's the time when you really start searching for things outside yourself.

The younger generation gives me more respect than I could ever hope for.

Every artistic form has its golden age, and unfortunately I think the golden age for whatever I do probably ended about 1990.

I think an artist's true worth comes through an inter-generational thing - when you go beyond your own time, and start influencing people in a greater way than just what surrounds you.

Some artists are nervous - most of them are, to tell you the truth, and they have different ways of exhibiting that. Some of them are boisterous, some are really quiet.

In the early '70s, I started to feel like Philadelphia soul was the black-sheep brother of rock and roll. I decided to try to get away from it.

When I was a kid, I always looked up to people like B.B. King and Ray Charles.

My house is actually two houses that were deconstructed. They were Connecticut Valley houses built in 1771 and 1781. I took them down piece by piece and reconstructed them about 50 miles to the west on the New York/Connecticut border.

If you're African American, you are forced into making different choices, in a lot of cases, than you are as a white person.

As I got older, my voice got better.

I've watched the world crash and burn in every sense. I've watched the record industry crash and burn; politically I've watched it crash and burn, financially crash and burn.

I had the idea of 'Live From Daryl's House' way before I contracted Lyme disease.

I knew that I would be making music for my whole life; as far as how many people respond to it, you can't plan for that.

Nobody really cares about what other people think anymore; they're all about themselves.

All artists have insecurity.

Any song I don't feel good about, I shelve. Anything you ever hear me sing, it's because I want to.

The first thing I ever did was play talent shows at the Uptown Theater and the Adelphi Ballroom.